Stark & Stark, a prominent law firm with offices in New Jersey, New York and eastern Pennsylvania, announced that firm shareholder Thomas S. Onder will be co-chairing a panel discussion on the legal challenges and negotiation strategies within retail leasing at the ICSC Next Generation National Conference.

Mr. Onder will be co-chairing a panel discussion titled "Jumping Legal Hurdles – Avoiding Pitfalls and the Most Effective Ways to Negotiate and Get Your Deal Done”.

This seminar will focus on how to overcome the biggest legal hurdles in getting leases signed:

• Build-out responsibilities, allowances, co-tenancy, guarantees, restrictive areas, options, and assignments; • Legal issues that can arise from carelessly drafted lease; how to negotiate those items during the LOI stage and/or at lease; and• Strategies for effective negotiating and ways to maximize rights in the leases.

Tom Onder is a Shareholder and member of the Commercial, Retail and Industrial Real Estate Group of Stark & Stark. Mr. Onder concentrates his practice in the area of commercial litigation, specializing in commercial landlord disputes and secured transactions before state and federal courts in New York and New Jersey, as well as the Federal Claims Court in Washington D.C.

As a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, Mr. Onder serves as the Co-Chair of the ICSC NextGen NJ/PA/DE Region, and is a Program Planning Committee Person for the National Next Gen Conference.